Word: defendent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Queens Supreme Court Justice Lester Holtzman ruled that the state's department of education had denied Marsha due process of law. Emphasizing the gravity of sanctions imposed on a Regents cheater, Judge Holtzman held that the education department should have held a hearing "at which she might defend herself with the assistance of counsel...
...come the South Vietnamese don't "defend" themselves against the National Liberation Front (the Vietcong...
Years Away. Like the Florida petition, one of the California suits, filed last week, also argues that by excluding jurors who oppose capital punishment, the state makes both conviction and imposition of the death sentence more likely, by violating the defendant's right to a jury picked from a full cross section of the community. The second California case differs markedly. In that one, Robert Emmett Thornton, 23, has already been convicted of two kidnap-rapes. While he was awaiting formal sentencing, the A.C.L.U. asked to be allowed to challenge the constitutionality of capital punishment. In a rare move...
...classical tendencies. The march of history has massively undermined the assumptions which attended and justified our original involvement. No part of the original justification--I do not exaggerate--remains intact. More remarkable, perhaps, very few of the assumptions that supported our involvement are any longer asserted by those who defend the conflict. Yet the congealing intellectual processes of war have worked to the full. Action which is not defended is still adhered to as a dogged manifestation of faith...
...have also shown a tendency to become frozen in fixed positions. For the first time since 1815 we are engaged in a conflict to which a very large part of the population is opposed. The unanimity rule which has previously characterized our national conflicts does not exist. Those who defend and those who attack both lost some of their capacity to accommodate their thoughts to new evidence...